Southern Pacific GE B30-7 7838 and U30C 7919 heading east near Hearne, Texas.

Southern Pacific C-50-9 Caboose 4758 and 4702 at Anaheim SP yard.

Southern Pacific 4-6-2 No. 2472 pulls eastbound up the Niles Canyon to Sunol. The locomotive is pulling a photographers special through the canyon on this fine spring morning.

Cotton Belt GP60 teams with UP C41-8W and tunnel motor to drag a northbound up the grade through downtown Opelika.

There's Something You Don't See Everyday. It's your typical, June afternoon in Portland as...wait...SP 4449 running tender-forward on the mainline? That's right, the 1941-built product of L... (more)

Commonly called "The Most Beautiful Train In The World,"Southern Pacific's Daylight passenger trains must have been a sight to see skirting the Pacific Ocean along the California ... (more)

An EUASM on the Modoc Line awaits the arrival of a westbound at Flanigan, Nevada so it can proceed east on the former Western Pacific. The "westbound" turned out to be a track inspector... (more)

The 4 O'clock run of the Oregon Rail Heritage Center's Holiday Express on the last day of this year's season.

The westbound Whiteson Flyer crosses the Willamette River on the Tillamook Branch. Although lead unit SP 4355 was retired a few months later, it lives on today as an industrial switcher at a wast... (more)

Starting in the late 1980s (as I recall), SP power became very common on trains coming up CSX from New Orleans, but we did not see many GP40P-2s. I watched hundreds of trains through Opelika in t... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific freight crosses the Arkansas River just west of Princeton, Colorado, as it descends the eastern grade of Tennessee Pass on August 2, 1996.

An eastbound Southern Pacific manifest freight grinds uphill climbing Tennessee Pass and crosses the Eagle River approaching Pando, Colorado, on August 2, 1996. Not only does the train have to fig... (more)

A Southern Pacific freight approaches the east switch of the siding at Texas Creek, Colorado, while following the Arkansas River westbound on Rio Grande’s original mainline route through the Royal... (more)